Democrats.com, 10/14/04
BUSH LIE - 'As a result of ...ridding the Taliban out of
Afghanistan, the Afghan people had elections...'
FACT - The US has NOT rid Afghanistan of the Taliban. They
are very much still in Afghanistan, and have posed a major threat both
to the Afghanistan government and to the recent elections:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1512&ncid=731&e=2&u=/afp/20040916/wl_afp/afghanistan_vote_attacks
BUSH LIE - 'Gosh, I just don't think I ever said I'm not
worried about Osama bin Laden. It's kind of one of those
exaggerations.'
FACT - Transcript of Bush press conference, March 13,
2003: Q: Mr. President, in your speeches now, you rarely talk or
mention Osama bin Laden. Why is that? [...] BUSH: ... I don't know
where he is. Nor -- you know, I just don't spend that much time on him
really... I truly am not that concerned about him. "
http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/04/10/con04436.html
BUSH LIE - 'Most of the tax cuts went to low- and
middle-income '
FACT - Tables of US tax data compiled by the Tax Policy
Center shows that the smallest proportion or the tax cuts, in terms of
after tax change in income, went to Americans making less than $75,000
per year, while the lions share went to those making over $500,000 per
year.
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/TaxModel/tmdb/TMTemplate.cfm?DocID=458&topic2ID=40&topic3ID=57
BUSH LIE - ''You've got more money in your pocket as a result
of the tax relief we passed. A family of four making $40,000 received
about $1,700 in tax relief.'
FACT - Since 2001, because infation has risen faster than
salaries, the average "spending power" income for American
workers fell by 1.7%. So take off $680 per year for your family of 4's
$40,000.
http://www.johnkerry.com/pdf/pr_2004_0614.pdf
BUSH LIE - 'Vaccine manufacturers are worried about
getting sued, and therefore they have backed off from providing this
kind of vaccine.'
FACT - Vaccine makers are protected from all vaccine
lawsuits except those in which fraud and intentional wrongdoing are
shown. ."Vaccine manufacturers and others are sheltered from
product liability lawsuits by a special 1986 act of Congress. (See the
US Code 42 USC 300aa for details.)
http://assembler.law.cornell.edu/uscode/search/display.html?terms=vaccine%20liability%20&url=/uscode/html/uscode42/usc_sec_42_00000300--aa023-.html
BUSH LIE - 'Three-quarters of Al Qaida leaders have been
brought to justice.'
FACT - The absence of any explanation [for this estimate]
as well as the timing, prompted some counterterrorism experts to
deride the figure as "meaningless" and predict the revision
could fuel allegations that the administration is massaging terrorism
data for political purposes.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5945061/site/newsweek
BUSH LIE - 'Veterans are getting very good health care under
my administration.'
FACT - In an hour-long "Primetime Thursday"
investigation, Diane Sawyer uncovers disturbing new information about
quality of care and questionable management practices at some of
America's veterans' hospitals.
http://www.vvaindiana.org/News/hidden04-07-04.html
Posted by erp at October 15, 2004 01:23 AM